Today, much to my wife’s delight, I caught 4 baby mice at work and brought them home for my 2 girls (9 & 11).
They love them, my wife… not so much.
I’ve found, for sake of traps though, that they love marshmallow cream!
Take that advice how you will, I used it to bait traps, but if you’re gonna take care of the mice, they might like some marshmallow cream as an occasional treat…
Oh so we’re really doing hantavirus this season
So hot right now.
Because of the fever.
I wrote a whole comment about Hantavirus with a /s, then rewrote it…
Wild mice carry diseases. Switch them out for some bread ones. And no, I dont mean the food. Or do I?
If you don’t actually want doughy mice, (mmmmm, yum), then the word you’re looking for is bred.
Thank you!
We have a cat that bring in mice and releases them inside all the time, I don’t think a few extra will increase our risk profile too much…?
The risk is from their shit which gets airborne or rubbed in crevices. Each mouse increases threat.
Cats also carry diseases, yet we keep them
Cats are bred and vaccinated.
Cats are not bread
Cryptosporidium and Toxoplasma spring to mind among others
if not bread, why bread shaped?
I was gonna comment, but I can’t follow this one. This is fn perfect.
Wild versions of domesticated
Cats
occasionally
also carry diseases,
although never documented as causing a PLAGUE,
yet we keep
many-times domesticated versions of
them
Fixed that for ya. With all those words missing, it seemed like a false equivalence, and that’s bad-faith. Happy to bring this one into line.
I’m with your wife on this one.
Jokes on you—I’m with your wife on this one.
Ditto
Get them at least a basic peep from a vet. A bit of something to minimise parasites should be a bare minimum to have them around your younglings. You don’t want to come home and find your daughters running their butts across the carpet, now do you.
…wild mice? What a horrible idea. Why wouldn’t you get domesticated, bred mice? Are you trying to bring sickness to your house because this is how you do it.
Feces. Feces are baby mice. Aww.
um…?
Donnie Darko reference.
must re-watch that, have on my NAS
We also have mice, thanks to our Puss who keeps bringing them in to play. Actually, I think we’re currently mouse-free after I ejected yesterday’s offering.
We have at least one living inside thanks to our cats. Last Saturday she brought in 3 in about 1/2 an hour. The older cat (at 16 y/o) just eats them if he can still manage to catch them; in his prime he brought in rats/rabbits/ducks.
It’s Autumn here in the southern hemisphere, so there are an abundance of mice is our semi-rural setting
Thank you!! So it’s not just ours who does that every now and then.
Time to get a snake.
For the record, I fucking hate mice. Mice in the camper, mice in the truck headliners, mice in the barn, mice in the crawlspace, mice everywhere they can poke their dirty shit and piss asses so you find them in the spring by the stink.
Fuck mice.
I see you’re aware of possible risks, so I’m just here to hope at least one of them is male, and you’ve named him Mister Jingles
in the words of shaggy “It wasn’t me”
I had typed out a whole Hantavirus /s comment ;)
dude
bruh, even
Mice are the reason i have a cat door in the garage.
What a depressing comment section - just as expected.
I fully support your decision OP. Mice are awesome. I’ve got some on my attic that I choose to co-exist with as I don’t have the hear to trap them. This is the kind of story your kids will remember for the rest of their lives.
